Improved wash-boiler



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Letters Patent No. 96,129, dated October 26, 1869.

MPROVIIID WASH-BOILER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters P atent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it 'known that we, DANIEL LUCAS and J AMES LUCAS, of Green Bay, in the c'ounty of Brown, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved VVash-Boi'ler; and we do hereby decla-re that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in boilers forwashing clothes, and consists iny the construction' and arrangement hereinafter described.

The accompanying drawing represents a vertical section of the boiler through the line a: a: of lig. 2.

Figure 2 is a top or plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This improvement consists in placing in an ordinary wash-boiler a raised perforated false bottom, A, conneet-ed, bythe tubular stands B B, with the perforated horizontal tube C.

D representsthe wash-boiler, which may b e of any desired form or size.

The tube C is raised to near the Vrim ofthe boiler, as seen in tig. 1.

The clothes to be boiled or washed are placed on the false lbottom A.

' e represents holesin the false bottom.

f represents holes in the horizontal tube` C.

The water or suds will, of course, descehddo the bottom of the boiler, where steam will begenerated, which will force the water upward, through the vertical tubular stands B B, into the horizontal tube. C.

rlhis water, combined with steam, (more or less,) will be discharged directly on to the clothes, and will find its way down, through the clothes, to the bottom again. l

A circulation of the water in the boiler is thus kept up, the result of which is a thorough cleansing of `the clothes without rubbing, except in extreme cases.

More or less water will be forced upthrough the holes in the false bottom, which will run off, and return, as before stated.

The false bottom A is made convex or crossing, so that it may .allow of `this movement of the water, and also to strengthen it, for supporting thc weight of the clothes.

By this arrangement, the bottom ofthe boiler I) is relieved of the pressure of the clothes, and its durability is consequently increased.

The position of the clothes while undergoing this process may be occasionally changed, if required; but,

bottom A, tubular stands B B, and perforated tube (E,

constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as described, for the purposes specified.v l

' DANIEL LUCAS.

JAMES LUCAS.

Witnesses:

DONALD Gonnos,

JAMES C. BROWN. 

